Approximate periodic solutions of a nonlinear parabolic system and an identification problem

This work continues our study in [L. Lei, Identification of parameters through the approximate periodic solutions of a linear parabolic system, preprint, 2005] on the identification problem for the coefficients for the lower order terms in a parabolic system, through its approximate periodic solutions. Different from the work in [L. Lei, Identification of parameters through the approximate periodic solutions of a linear parabolic system, preprint, 2005], our system now is nonlinear and the coefficients to be detected are from the first order term. From the application point of view, we now try to determine the diffusion coefficients for the system by the observation over a subregion of the physical domain. The existence and uniqueness problem of the approximate periodic solutions is studied in the first part of the paper.     

Identification of Parameters through the Approximate Periodic Solutions of a Parabolic System

This work is concerned with the identification problem for the perturbation term or error term in a parabolic partial differential equation through its approximate periodic solutions. The observation is made over a subregion of the physical domain. The existence and uniqueness problem of the approximate periodic solutions is studied in the first part of the paper. A solution to the identification problem is given in the second part of the paper. The main ingredients to be used include the classical Galerkin method and the unique continuation property for a parabolic system. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 10571161.     

Convergence des EDSRs et homogéneisation des inégalités variationnelles semilinéaires dans un convexe

We study the limit of the solution of a Semi-linear Variational Inequality (SVI for short) involving a second order differential operator of parabolic type with periodic coefficients and highly oscillating term. Our basic tool is the approach given by Pardoux [16]. In particular, we use the weak convergence of an associated reflected Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (BSDE for short).     

Stefan problem

We prove the existence of a global classical solution of the multidimensional two-phase Stefan problem. The problem is reduced to a quasilinear parabolic equation with discontinuous coefficients in a fixed domain. With the help of a small parameter ε, we smooth coefficients and investigate the resulting approximate solution. An analytical method that enables one to obtain the uniform estimates of an approximate solution in the cross-sections t = const is developed. Given the uniform estimates, we make the limiting transition as ε → 0. The limit of the approximate solution is a classical solution of the Stefan problem, and the free boundary is a surface of the class H ^2+α,1+α/2.     

Heat transfer in composite materials with Stefan–Boltzmann interface conditions

In this paper, we discuss nonstationary heat transfer problems in composite materials. This problem can be formulated as the parabolic equation with Stefan–Boltzmann interface conditions. It is proved that there exists a unique global classical solution to one‐dimensional problems. Moreover, we propose a numerical algorithm by the finite difference method for this nonlinear transmission problem. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Nonlocal limits in the study of linear elliptic systems arising in periodic homogenization

In the present paper, we obtain the two-scale limit system of a sequence of linear elliptic periodic problems with varying coefficients. We show that this system has not the same structure than the classical one, obtained when the coefficients are fixed. This is due to the apparition of nonlocal effects. Our results give an example showing that the homogenization of elliptic problems with varying coefficients, depending on one parameter, gives in general a nonlocal limit problem.     

Homogenization of random parabolic operator with large potential

We study the averaging problem for a divergence form random parabolic operators with a large potential and with coefficients rapidly oscillating both in space and time variables. We assume that the medium possesses the periodic microscopic structure while the dynamics of the system is random and, moreover, diffusive. A parameter α will represent the ratio between space and time microscopic length scales. A parameter β will represent the effect of the potential term. The relation between α and β is of great importance. In a trivial case the presence of the potential term will be “neglectable”. If not, the problem will have a meaning if a balance between these two parameters is achieved, then the averaging results hold while the structure of the limit problem depends crucially on α (with three limit cases: one classical and two given under martingale problems form). These results show that the presence of stochastic dynamics might change essentially the limit behavior of solutions.     

On a multiscale analysis of an inverse problem of nonlinear transfer law identification in periodic microstructure

This paper is devoted to the multiscale analysis of a homogenization inverse problem of the heat exchange law identification, which is governed by parabolic equations with nonlinear transmission conditions in a periodic heterogeneous medium. The aim of this work is to transform this inverse problem with nonlinear transmission conditions into a new one governed by a less complex nonlinear parabolic equation, while preserving the same form and physical properties of the heat exchange law that it will be identified, based on periodic homogenization theory. For this, we reformulate first the encountered homogenization inverse problem to an optimal control one. Then, we study the well-posedness of the state problem using the Leray–Schauder topological degrees and we also check the existence of the solution for the obtained optimal control problem. Finally, using the periodic homogenization theory and priori estimates, with justified choise of test functions, we reduce our inverse problem to a less complex one in a homogeneous medium.     

Homogenization of a Coupled System with Periodic Oscillating Coefficients

We study the homogenization of a coupled system with periodic oscillating coefficients in bounded non-homogeneous media. The system couples the Navier–Stokes and a classical parabolic diffusive equation. To do that, we introduce a generalized compensate compactness result and a suitable class of test function to this problem. By passing the limit, we obtain the homogenized model of this problem.     

Singular homogenization with stationary in time and periodic in space coefficients

We study the homogenization problem for a random parabolic operator with coefficients rapidly oscillating in both the space and time variables and with a large highly oscillating nonlinear potential, in a general stationary and mixing random media, which is periodic in space. It is shown that a solution of the corresponding Cauchy problem converges in law to a solution of a limit stochastic PDE.     

Optimal control problem in a domain with branched structure and homogenization

We consider a linear parabolic problem in a thick junction domain which is the union of a fixed domain and a collection of periodic branched trees of height of order 1 and small width connected on a part of the boundary. We consider a three‐branched structure, but the analysis can be extended to n‐branched structures. We use unfolding operator to study the asymptotic behavior of the solution of the problem. In the limit problem, we get a multi‐sheeted function in which each sheet is the limit of restriction of the solution to various branches of the domain. Homogenization of an optimal control problem posed on the above setting is also investigated. One of the novelty of the paper is the characterization of the optimal control via the appropriately defined unfolding operators. Finally, we obtain the limit of the optimal control problem. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Classical Solutions for a Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equation Arising in Computational Neuroscience

In this paper we analyze the global existence of classical solutions to the initial boundary-value problem for a nonlinear parabolic equation describing the collective behavior of an ensemble of neurons. These equations were obtained as a diffusive approximation of the mean-field limit of a stochastic differential equation system. The resulting nonlocal Fokker-Planck equation presents a nonlinearity in the coefficients depending on the probability flux through the boundary. We show by an appropriate change of variables that this parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary conditions can be transformed into a non standard Stefan-like free boundary problem with a Dirac-delta source term. We prove that there are global classical solutions for inhibitory neural networks, while for excitatory networks we give local well-posedness of classical solutions together with a blow up criterium. Surprisingly, we will show that the spectrum for the operator in the linear case, that corresponding to a system of uncoupled networks, does not give any information about the large time asymptotic behavior.     

Fast Reaction Limit and Large Time Behavior of Solutions to a Nonlinear Model of Sulphation Phenomena

We investigate the qualitative behavior of solutions to the initial-boundary value problem on the half-line for a nonlinear system of parabolic equations, which arises to describe the evolution of the chemical reaction of sulphur dioxide with the surface of calcium carbonate stones. We show that, both in the fast reaction limit and for large times, the solutions of this problem are well described in terms of the solutions to a suitable one phase Stefan problem on the same domain.     

Nonlinear second order evolution inclusions with noncoercive viscosity term

In this paper we deal with a second order nonlinear evolution inclusion, with a nonmonotone, noncoercive viscosity term. Using a parabolic regularization (approximation) of the problem and a priori bounds that permit passing to the limit, we prove that the problem has a solution.     

Existence of Global and Periodic Solutions for Delay Equation with Quasilinear Perturbation

Delay parabolic problems have been studied by many authors. Some authors investigated more general delay problem (refer to [1], [2]), some investigated concrete delay partial differential equations. Recently, we have done some work on delay parabolic problem. We discussed semilinear parabolic delay problem and obtained some results on the existence of solutions. In particular the results on existence of periodic solutions are characteristic (see [3], [4], [5], [6]). The purpose of this paper is to study delay equation with quasilinear perturbation. We present the existence of global and periodic solutions of abstract evolution equations in Section 2. The abstract results are used to obtain the existence of global and periodic solutions of delay parabolic problem with quasilinear perturbation in Section 3. We make preparation for our investigation and give a generalization of Gronwall inequality (Lemma 1.3) which is used in next section.     

Elliptic operators and maximal regularity on periodic little-H?lder spaces

We consider one-dimensional inhomogeneous parabolic equations with higher-order elliptic differential operators subject to periodic boundary conditions. In our main result we show that the property of continuous maximal regularity is satisfied in the setting of periodic little-H?lder spaces, provided the coefficients of the differential operator satisfy minimal regularity assumptions. We address parameter-dependent elliptic equations, deriving invertibility and resolvent bounds which lead to results on generation of analytic semigroups. We also demonstrate that the techniques and results of the paper hold for elliptic differential operators with operator-valued coefficients, in the setting of vector-valued functions.     

Homogenization of the parabolic cauchy problem in the Sobolev class H<Superscript>1</Superscript>(R<Superscript>d</Superscript>)

Homogenization in the small period limit for the solution ue of the Cauchy problem for a parabolic equation in R^d is studied. The coefficients are assumed to be periodic in R^d with respect to the lattice ɛG. As ɛ → 0, the solution u ɛ converges in L2(R^d) to the solution u0 of the effective problem with constant coefficients. The solution u ɛis approximated in the norm of the Sobolev space H ¹(R^d) with error O( ɛ); this approximation is uniform with respect to the L2-norm of the initial data and contains a corrector term of order ɛ. The dependence of the constant in the error estimate on time t is given. Also, an approximation in H ¹(R^d) for the solution of the Cauchy problem for a nonhomogeneous parabolic equation is obtained.     

STUDY OF CRYSTAL GROWTH AND SOLUTE PRECIPITATION THROUGH FRONT TRACKING METHOD

Crystal growth and solute precipitation is a Stefan problem. It is a free boundary problem for a parabolic partial differential equation with a time-dependent phase interface. The velocity of the moving interface between solute and crystal is a local function. The dendritic structure of the crystal interface, which develops dynamically, requires high resolution of the interface geometry. These facts make the Lagrangian front tracking method well suited for the problem. In this paper, we introduce an upgraded version of the front tracking code and its associated algorithms for the numerical study of crystal formation. We compare our results with the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method （SPH） in terms of the crystal fractal dimension with its dependence on the Damkohler number and density ratio.     

Dynamics of Thermally-Insulated Nonequilibrium Stefan Problem

We study a two-phase Stefan problem with kinetics. Here we prove existence of a finite-dimensional attractor for the problem without heat losses. Fot the most part we use a more elegant technique of energetic type estimates in appropriately defined weighted Sobolev spaces as opposite to the parabolic potentials of [9]. We demonstrate existence of compact attractors in the Sobolev spaces and prove that the attractor consists of sufficiently regular functions. This allows us to show that the Hausdorff dimension of the attractor is finite.     

Asymptotic behaviour of linear Dirichlet parabolic problems with variable operators depending on time in varying domains

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of linear parabolic Dirichlet problems when the coefficients and the domains where the problems are posed vary simultaneously. In the limit problem it appear the H-limit of the operators, and as it is usual in the homogenization of Dirichlet problems, a new term of order zero. We also obtain a corrector result.